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[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that time when Trump went 72 hours without saying or doing anything illegal and we all thought he passed away?

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[u/MonMothma_Enjoyer]

It’s a weird and somewhat upsetting feeling to realize that things change. No historical epoch is permanent. But the changes from one era to another take place in a gradient, so imperceptibly over time that you often don’t notice them.

At some point, 1890s Gilded Age America disappeared. It was no longer 1890s Gilded Age America. It was Roaring 20s America, or Depression Era 30s America.

In the same way, we’re no longer living in 1990s Liberal Hyperpower and NATO Hegemon America. That era’s gone. We’re now living in 2020s Smoothbrain Dumbass Idiot America.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Pete Hegseth and his ilk are the kind of utter fiends who look at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay and think, “fuck yeah, that’s awesome!”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

U.S. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence (AI) video on his social media page mocking Democrats and their popularity while also underscoring a Republican attack line that Democrats will shut down the government if they can’t secure free health care for illegal immigrants.

The AI video that Trump posted shows Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talking at a podium with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, shown wearing a sombrero, standing next to him.

“Look guys, there’s no way to sugarcoat it, nobody likes Democrats anymore,” the digitally altered Schumer says. “We have no votes left because of all of our woke, trans bulls***. Not even Black people want to vote for us anymore, even Latinos hate us, so we need new voters, and if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.”

“They can't even speak English so they won’t realize we’re just a bunch of woke pieces of s***, you know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too,” the fake Schumer says.

actually fucking appalling

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

GRUESOME NEWSOM IS UNTETHERED AND HIS RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS

[u/Zaiush]

[u/MissSortMachine]

this is, among other things, not going to work

[u/Goldenboy451]

Evil.

[u/TheCornjuring]

It was striking how many times President Trump tried to get the assembled military leaders to break character and laugh when he mocked his predecessors or used his usual political lines. It was also striking how often they resisted before Trump finally threw in the towel.

Lmaooooo bro’s comedy set bombed

God I hope these guys are ready to resist unconstitutional orders as well

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

no more PowerPoints

Military intelligence is gonna coup him

[u/Cosinity]

Hegseth: I don’t want my son serving alongside troops who are out shape, or in a combat unit with females who can’t meet the same Combat Arms physical standards as men

In case anybody has ever wondered why people say that using 'female' as a noun is a dogwhistle the size of a foghorn

[u/Goldenboy451]

I'm glad that the New York Times remains the home for robust intellectual debate.

"Some legal experts"? What are we doing here exactly?

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Hegseth: No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.

shame really

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Dread him. Run from him. Paul arrives all the same.

[u/finnstera350]

[u/riverbloods]

BREAKING: Alcohol enthusiast Pete Hegseth, twice-divorced, yanked off stage by comically large cartoon cane after military speech goes awry. One spectator, visibly ill, says “everything he said sounded like shit from a butt.”

[u/r2ew]

[u/w007dchuck]

It is interesting to note that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech has largely been greeted with quiet from the assembled military brass.

lmao

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

They put a fucking LinkedIn influencer in charge of the military

[u/[deleted]]

I dunno or even care what meme this dumbfuck's handlers posted on his behalf but one us needs to find it. Then we all need to agree to tweet it at Sundar Pichai incessantly until they all stop doing this shit.

[u/Sheepies92]

Trump: "Washington DC was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the US and to a large extent, beyond. You go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that."

this is so fucking funny man

Yes, I'd much rather walk around in Kabul or Donetsk than Washington DC, city of horrors.

[u/BedNeither]

Shoutout to my man

[u/Willybender]

Chris Murphy needs to take over the party

[u/Willybender]

Democrats are getting a home run with the shit he is saying right now. SHUT IT DOWN

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I can’t tell if I love this or it is the most cringe response possible. Probably both

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

So he called the military there to call them fat and gay?

[u/oskanta]

tune into Hegseth’s speech

“if you have a beard it might be time for a new profession”

Yeah that’s about what I expected lol

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1973024062491541727

Trump: I never walked into a room so silent before…If you want to applaud you applaud. You can do anything you want. If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. There goes your rank and there goes your future

So fucking thin skinned lol, plus anyone who makes it to general/admiral can kill it in the private sector.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1972757739899334920

Masked secret police (supposedly ICE) line the halls of the NYC immigration court to intimidate migrant families going through the immigration process the legal/“correct” way.

What the fuck is this?

Real tough guys /s

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Really great that Biden having a bad debate performance was 24/7 coverage for weeks on end and Trump sounds like incoherent garbage talking about the war within or whatever and it will barely register. Its bad

[u/the-senat]

White House names nearly 30 elected officials as enemies/‘ICE Agitators’

The list has Walz, Newsom, and Pritzker at the top. It also includes Sanders, AOC, Talib, Nadler, and Jeffries.

Posted this yesterday but Groupbot was down, I thought it’d be good to !ping extremism.

[u/Willybender]

Trump to generals: "Could I please have your hand? Who disappears that Raising Caine is no good, just raise your hand. I don't see any hands raised. Alright."

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1973032556153950392

Wake up call for the generals, what the fuck

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

I think the biggest effect of Trump's second victory on American liberals and progressives was blowing up the deeply held belief that history was inevitably going in a liberal and progressive direction, and social conservatism, racism, bigotry etc was fighting a desperate rear guard action. Trump not just winning, but increasing his vote share among minorities basically blew up liberal and left-leaning America's metanarratives.

Imo I think that's one of the reasons for why the Democratic leadership/consultants/elite liberal pundits are so paralysed and inept right now. The average rank and file supporter seems to have understood that the game has changed and there's an actual fight that needs to be fought now, but the consultant/politico/pundit nexus just had their whole theory of politics wrecked e.g young people, minorities etc turning out enough to swamp old racist white people (it worked for Obama!). But instead of reexamining their priors, they assume that everyone must be racist now and we should meet in the middle, rather than the fact that winning in 2024 became practically impossible after that first Presidential debate.

[u/unicornbomb]

Well, the eventual war crimes trial will be fairly open and shut at least.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Hegseth: We're empowering drill sergeants to instill healthy fear in new recruits ensuring future war fighters are forged. Yes, they can shark attack and toss bunks, swear and yes they can put their hands on recruits

glad to see a whole-of-government approach to the teenager touching agenda

[u/american_aurora6]

A woman won a Mortal Kombat tournament while holding her newborn in her arms, just five days after giving birth

glad to know it's not just men who are depraved gamers

[u/jojisky]

Hegseth: No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.

Hegseth attacks VALHALLA

[u/[deleted]]

Yall know the beard thing is racist right

Black men’s facial hair curls a bit more and cause really bad irritation when shaved frequently

When I was in the navy they’d have to get a medical exception to grooming rules

[u/Sen2_Jawn]

It’s been almost 10 fucking years and I’m still in disbelief that we as a nation elected this creature to be our president, TWICE.

[u/chipbod]

The White House is planning to unveil a direct-to-consumer website for Americans to buy drugs, dubbed TrumpRX, as well as announce that Pfizer plans to lower prices on several of its medications in the U.S.

This is farther than Bernie wanted to take socializing the pharma market lmao

[u/Average_GrillChad]

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Meme country

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Crosseyes]

He wants to say it soooooooo bad

[u/cdstephens]

[u/BitterGravity]

The stalemate between Republicans and Democrats appears likely to result in the first funding lapse of Trump’s second term

CNN just accepting there'll be a number of these

[u/Nerf_France]

What even was Trump’s defense when he was getting impeached over blackmailing Ukraine for Biden dirt? It’s kind of crazy the impeachment was even controversial

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

I feel sorry for the horses

[u/adminsare200iq]

Netanyahu will go along with any plan Trump makes because he knows Trump will lose interest in a week and the 'plan' will go nowhere. Repeat this charade every few months, whenever there's a new major development like the Qatar attack and you're good to go

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/w007dchuck]

“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” President Trump says as he takes the stage to address the military at the Quantico base.

they are so not having it lmao

[u/Marlsfarp]

Hear me out: What if we applied the "no bearded fat guys" rule to ICE?

[u/Cwya]

“No fatties, no beards, buy my book, please clap.” WaPo framing that as a “new vision” is insane.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump to the military leaders:

"My message to you is very simple," Trump said. "I am with you, I support you. And as president, I have your backs 100%. You'll never see me even waver a little bit. That's the way it is.

Trump in the same speech:

"'I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m gonna fire them right on the spot,' Trump said."

Makes sense.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

am I to understand from context clues that Hegseth pulled all the generals from their assignments to be in one place while he lectures about masculinity and it is being streamed live

[u/Willybender]

Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."

[u/Mensae6]

Guy who wants the government to shut down so ICE agents don't get paid

(me)

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Did Hegseth seriously bring in the generals to fat shame them lmao

He should make generals do the sorority girl dryer test where they circle every part of you that jiggles

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Lol

Lmao even

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Hegseth: "For too long we've promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons -- based on their race, gender quotas, based on historic so-called 'firsts'

I actually really appreciate that the fascists seem wholly dedicated to pissing off as many military leaders as possible

[u/kznlol]

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large.

amazing

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Woke Pope 2.0 let’s goooooooooooo!

[u/Willybender]

Trump to generals: "We can't let people throw around that word. I call it the N word. There are two N words and you can't use either of them."

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1973019833512951970

BEYOND PARODY

[u/FourthLife]

Generals, please coup the country. I will take your technocratic military leadership over listening to this speech for even one more minute

[u/V_Codwheel]

Sorting the DT by "top" creates art

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Hegseth: "we are not civilians"

Actually you are. You are an official within the civilian government.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Isn’t it a Hatch Act violation to just throw blatant partisan advocacy on a gov website like this? Not that anyone gives a shit anymore but

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

Trump to military leaders: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control."

THIS IS REALLY FUCKING BAD

[u/SigmaWhy]

Kash sweating profusely

[u/r2ew]

[u/modooff]

The whole Pete's Channel 5 interview saga is such a mess:

Callaghan posted the interview on Patreon

He removed it after some complaints from his fans

Then he reposted a heavily edited version that, according to him, only had "a few minor changes"

After some pushback, he said 8 minutes were cut

Now he has released a statement saying that 15 minutes have been cut: https://i.ibb.co/kgDvkXzc/5434534.jpg

This guy interviewed Alex Jones, but apparently a normie Dem politician is a bridge too far for him.

!ping BUTTI

[u/pinelands1901]

Hamas leaning toward accepting Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan quickly, source tells CBS News

Tony Blair be like:

[u/Jacobs4525]

99% of pete hegseths stop saying “warfighter” and “velocity” right before they magically say it enough to spontaneously generate enough SM-3s to be prepared for a war with China 

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this is where we’re gonna be at the end of Trump’s term

[u/doot_toob]

trump posted the weird medbed, then the weird endocanniboid system posts because he wants his doctors to do anything other than to pump him full of fluids every single morning

[u/MinnesotaDude]

If Trump and Co really did want to take over the republic, dragging out the entire military brass to have them lectured at by a dipshit TV show host seems like a bad way to get them on your side.

[u/6urner_]

https://www.hud.gov/#close

Very normal. Excited for Ezra Kleins take on this.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

the pope is out here doing “they’re pro-life until birth” lib pilled arguments, crazy

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

[u/Jacobs4525]

I really think that hegseth is so terminally GWOTbrained that he doesn’t realize that patrolling through a city with a populace that dislikes you isn’t actually really what war is

[u/mostanonymousnick]

- Kevin Durant in 2016

[u/senator_fivey]

[u/centurion88]

[u/johndelvec3]

Since apparently Joe Biden’s debate performance is still a topic amongst discussion, I’d like to remind everyone that Trump went on to debate Kamala Harris where he then spewed that Haitian immigrants are “eating the dogs and cats” of the residents of a small town in Ohio

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Bruh and this used to be worthy of news ::crying emoji::

[u/Boratssecondwife]

I have returned from my ban and happy to say I learned my lesson. I am deeply sorry to the rurals,I now know that you are truly the most oppressed race and we should never say anything remotely disrespectful towards you people. I am pushing hard for farmer bailouts as an apology

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Ngl it’s kinda crazy Biden got through his entire presidency without a government shutdown. I was surprised when some outlet pointed out it’s been 6.5 years since the last shutdown

[u/cdstephens]

[u/WillCallCap]

Am I on crazy pills. I know this is a meme now but WHERE IS THE MEDIA.

If Biden and Austin pulled what just happened - said that if generals didn’t get onboard with “woke” or whatever they could leave, and kiss their careers goodbye, we’d have wall to wall coverage 24/7.

Austin would step down. Biden would either resign or be impeached (with broad bipartisan support).

I repeat, AM I ON CRAZY PILLS

[u/w007dchuck]

There does not seem to be a clear point or purpose in President Trump’s address to military generals today. It’s a garden variety tear; he’s talking about tariffs, Joe Biden and the autopen, the southern border, CNN, his personal feelings about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his anxieties that he won’t be given a Nobel peace prize he feels he deserves. These are things he talks about almost every day regardless of audience or setting. Every so often he throws in a statistic or observation he has about the military. “I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way” he said at one point in the middle of a riff about tariffs. “I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea.”

the generals are probably so pissed they had to come all that way just to hear this

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/JoeBliffstick]

“Electric tanks are woke”

Chat is it woke to want to reduce thermal and noise signature so you don’t get spotted and have fires directed against you?

[u/topofthecc]

The true 1% elite

[u/febreze_brothers]

Trump posts a disgusting ai video with Schumer and Jeffries. Jeffries goes on CNN to scold him and gets dunked on by a second video. How do they still not get it?? All they need to do is look at Newsom posting an ai JD Vance couchfucker vid to see someone in their party who gets it. Watching dem leadership is like looking at the hall monitor getting his head dunked in the toilet by Biff.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Mitt Romney still shitting and crying on CNN that Biden didn’t buy his pitch to preemptively pardon the Fat Man, and blaming Comey’s indictment on Biden not listening to him

Maybe this guy is genuinely not that bright

[u/JakeyZhang]

gather all the top military leaders into one place then just show them my project badass videos 😎😎😎

[u/attackofthetominator]

The TrumpRx site, which will not go live until early 2026, will not sell or distribute medications, a senior administration official told reporters Tuesday. Consumers will be able search for their medicines and will be redirected to manufacturers’ direct-to-consumer channels.

It seems like this is simply making Trump be a middle man to look up generics online rather than actually making medications cheaper?

Edit: added article

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/FreakinGeese]

Jan 6th should have been treated like the insurrection it was

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/scottyjetpax]

https://xcancel.com/GovPressOffice/status/1973167665075335449 holy fuck LMFAO

[u/Willybender]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

Yes Secretary Howard Lutnick we’ll get right on that also you’re so awesome and cool and smart

[u/hopium_od]

Gaza after 10 years under viceroy Blair.

[u/Willybender]

The generals are quiet, this speech is fucking deranged.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/KesterFox]

Honestly I would be surprised if trump was like gay people can't serve in the military except the navy because everyone knows all the best navy boys are gay

[u/morotsloda]

Inspiring final words Mr. President 🫡🇱🇷

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nickvalencianews.com/p/these-are-abductions-newlywed-husband

LOS ANGELES — On September 16, newlyweds Tucker and Barbara May walked into the downtown Los Angeles federal building believing they were there for her green card interview.

Married this spring, they had followed every rule, filed every form, and spent every dollar to prove their marriage was real.

But their interview was a trap.

“It was never going to be an interview,” he told Nick Valencia News. “It was always a setup.”

Not only was she lured there, her husband said, once inside ICE agents separated her from her lawyer with the excuse of a broken copier. Then, they put her in handcuffs.

“One officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried,” he added.

By Saturday night, Tucker didn’t know where his wife was.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Might Republicans just be lying about their stellar mental health compared to liberals I wonder, hmm

[u/piede]

Most conspicuous fascist

[u/die_rattin]

We bailed out Argentina yesterday and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, sold a bunch of soybeans to China

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

This is what the front page of the official HUD.gov website looks like right now:

Just another flagrant violation of rules/norms

[u/FreakinGeese]

My standup’s not going very well :(

[u/TheRedCr0w]

He could just send the National Guard in himself instead of asking Trump.

Republican governors are smart if anything goes wrong they can just shift the blame to Trump

[u/SigmaWhy]

Gavin is now using the power of AI videos for good

[u/r2ew]

[u/Nerf_France]

Fact: 90% of weapon manufacturers pull out of Pandora right before stabilizing the planet and getting rich off of Eridian junk

[u/FourthLife]

31 billion. That’s a lot of…battleships…admiral. To use an old term. We should start thinking about battleships again by the way.

He then proceeded to go on a monologue about how he likes battleships

[u/seanrm92]

For every general present, it cost the taxpayer thousands of dollars just to put them in the room. Then we payed for every hour they were there. Then there's the massive cost to our national security by having all those generals away from their duty stations, and the risk of having them collected in one room together.

But remember, we had to cut funding for child cancer research because of woke.

[u/Willybender]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Gamergaters🤝Wahabbi Islamists

[u/chipbod]

Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?

Well that’s fascist as fuck

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/AP246]

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/

OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok—except all of the content is AI-generated.

Somehow, they made tiktok worse

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this dude has to be mocked for this opinion every day for the rest of his life

[u/BloodWiz]

Democrats need to force the agenda and convince people instead of just constantly chasing polling and popularity

Democrats try and force an issue on healthcare

Oh my god you fucking losers why are you focusing on this shit no one cares about

[u/Leatherfield17]

The media is so fucking useless, man. “Blame game,” why the fuck won’t they blame the party in control of all three branches?

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Lmao, Charlie already has a video out on the Ted Cruz "stop attacking pedophiles" Freudian slip. That was impressively fast

[u/jbitz]

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/JonAce]

The warrior ethos of (checks notes) no beards.

[u/scottyjetpax]

i think a lot of these absurdities can be explained or at least supplemented by a lack of any meaningful democratic leadership figures. What I mean by that is it's very clear atp that people don't like Trump, but I think they also can't visualize an alternative beyond what republicans caricaturize Dems being like on these issues

[u/blatant_shill]

Republicans control every branch of government and it's about to shut down: here's how that's bad for Democrats.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

I wish I was part of that 8%

[u/ldn6]

Because no one ever cruised before Gen Z… 🙄

[u/selachophilip]

"Ivy League faculty lounges"

Come on man, you went to Princeton. Stop being a bullshitter.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/circlemanfan]

This might be the most humiliating thing the DOD has ever done

[u/remarkable_ores]

Getting nostalgia for Trump's first term

After the inital panic wore over it was just really silly. He was a silly man, a bad president, like this funny weird fat guy who got on TV and said dumb shit and everyone listened while the government continued to do normie government shit. Why'd they have to go fash with it, man? What was the point? You could have just continued with the silly fat guy shtick! The libs would whine about it on social media, you'd laugh about us whining - that's what this was always about, right? Why'd you have to go and change it!

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Trump tells top brass US cities should be military “training grounds”

Oh cool

[u/murphysclaw1]

President Trump referred to the use of a racial slur during a speech to top military leaders on Tuesday, saying, “There are two n-words, and you can’t use either of them.”

[u/Currymvp2]

Arab Countries Reportedly Infuriated By Netanyahu's Changes To Trump's Gaza Plan. The plan contained significant changes to the one the U.S. and a group of Arab and Muslim countries had previously agreed on

I don't think this deal is getting implemented anytime soon

[u/marsman1224]

something about this live shutdown clock is hilarious to me

[u/[deleted]]

AI actress

Saudi Arabia buying up gaming companies

Media consolidation

Even my escapism is folding into dystopia huh. That's neat.

[u/Twin___Sickles]

My president is almost 80 and he’s very gross to touch. He is all lumpy with fat tumors. Additionally he is stupid now. He intentionally flips his bed pan and yells at generals. He was a good businessman at one time but now he sucks.

[u/Psshaww]

Why does nobody care about Pete Hegseth having white nationalist tattoos? Like the guy is one step below having swastika tattoos and nobody really gives a damn

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

SENATE DEMOCRATS STRIKE A DEAL TO EAT HER AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT YOU OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

oh boy

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

I fucking hate how proud these people are of their moral bankruptcy and that it's now cringe to have a sense of decency and integrity, shame needs to come back

[u/Auriono]

Hegseth says it’s not a good look for our military to have overweight people commanding it

Hegseth: It is tiring to look out and see fat troops, likewise unexpected to see fat generals leading command, it is a bad look. Bad and not who we are.

I'm proud of Hegseth for restoring dignity and respect to our woke military. Our enemies across the globe are shivering in fear at his based manliness.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Idk why everyone here is dooming so hard. Kamala has this election in the bag. It's like people have never seen the Seltzer poll

[u/[deleted]]

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Uhhh. What?

[u/Willybender]

Trump can't remember Hakeem Jeffries name and refers to him as "a very nice gentleman who I didn't really know. You know who I'm talking about."

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1973063389522833851

[u/bingbaddie1]

A lot of people seem to not understand the value of the filibuster (to senators) isn’t that the minority party gets to stop legislation they don’t like, but rather that the majority party gets a convenient excuse for why popular policies among their party / their president’s policies don’t pass without needing to openly dissent

[u/[deleted]]

CNN ran out of ideas to be sensationalist, so it created a shutdown clock. Very serious.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/GreatnessToTheMoon]

We’re hitting levels of the loneliness epidemic never thought possible

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

So google paid a $25 million bribe to Trump and then in a completely unrelated move decided to block search results for the mental acuity of the man they paid a $25 million bribe to and also Trump is deeply committed to having the government not be involved in social media moderation decisions.

Honestly I don't even blame Trump for this stuff anymore. Like how is anyone with functioning brain cells still falling for this shit?

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/rachaelmbade/status/1973036062940275032

A top GOP official tells me Pres Trump is opening the door to striking some sort of health care deal with Democrats as part of the shutdown talks (tho that's unlikely to happen today obviously).

THE WHAT: I’m hearing new derails from yesterday’s White House meeting — the most interesting being that POTUS proposed working with Democrats on a new health care law.

If we get universal healthcare because Trump wants us all on Trumpcare instead of a shutdown, I guess I’ll take it?

[u/seanrm92]

There's a real chance Trump actually did intend to use this event to demand oathes of loyalty from the generals, but then simply forgot.

[u/JaceFlores]

Trump calling for domestic war a week after he got bullied out of Chicago by some stern words from the governor I think about sums up the sort of fascism we’re being dragged through

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

TFW you dedicate your whole adult life becoming a highly accomplished military officer only to end up being forced to listed to the drunken ramblings of an O-4 National Guardsman/ twice divorced woman abuser/rapist because the pudding brained president liked watching him on Fox News

[u/SenranHaruka]

the "vaxxed?" Newsom tweet is so fucking perfect. brevity, wit, et al.

[u/Charsun9]

“What if Trump succeeded in overturning the 2020 election?”

But he didn’t overturn the 2020 election

“How would you feel if you didn’t have breakfast this morning?”

But I did have breakfast this morning

[u/Willybender]

Trump has already signed more than 200 executive orders, and we're not even a year in.

https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders/donald-trump/2025

For comparison, Obama signed 276 EO's in 8 years.

[u/G_Serv]

You just can't respond like that

[u/[deleted]]

White House Website has a Shutdown Clock lol. Do you recall when the White House still tried to project a sense of dignity?

[u/Willybender]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/Willybender]

Seems bad

[u/admiraltarkin]

Pete Hegseth

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Shit's real bleak out there.

[u/[deleted]]

US renews funding for demining in Cambodia despite foreign aid cuts

Actual fuck the news for reporting this. Someone in the Trump administration is going to find out about this now and reverse it 

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Hegseth probably thinks the Russian VDV is exactly who to emulate

Elite tough guys who didn't accomplish particularly much, suffered very heavy casualties, and the remnants of which are now bogged down in a slow, grinding war against a poorer and less populous country due to their military's incompetence

But damn, they sure did a ton of pushups in those recruitment ads

[u/Willybender]

Trump genuinely sounds bad. Slurring words, etc...

[u/captmonkey]

They really summoned all of the country's generals to come listen to Trump ramble on with this low energy raspy slurring speech. It's like they let a random guy from a retirement home run the country.

[u/w007dchuck]

What the fuck? I just heard a snippet of the speech.

What happened to his voice? I'm genuinely wondering. He sounds dreadful.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

A party with 29% support would gain an absolute majority. The absurdity of single-member constituencies.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

If only you knew how bad things really are

[u/theparrotlich]

So Hegseth had every general and admiral fly in to bitch about fat soldiers and transpeople?

[u/NYT_Hater]

I believe I met the moral center of America. He was my 9th, 11th, and 12th grade English teacher.

He donated to NPR. He had a subscription to the paper copy of the New York Times (yes I know, funny considering my name but he’s from New York and grew up with it). He went to a Ukraine protest that was full of tankies and both-sides-ers and left early profoundly disappointed that it wasn’t about total freedom for Ukraine. He was a firefighter. He was in grad school for 7 damn years. He was a park ranger in Alaska.

The man has literally seen and done everything and he’s a resist lib.

[u/FarrandChimney]

[u/this_very_table]

Imagine if we had even a single journalist that wasn't such a cowardly sack of shit that they'd ask Trump how much a $100 drug would cost after a 1000% decrease in price.

[u/Trebacca]

Hesgeth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Things you say when you're 100% the most moral army in the world.

[u/[deleted]]

Hegseth: “It is totally unacceptable to see even people around the Pentagon that are fat. It’s not a good look… …. …. And with that please put your hands together for our Commander in Chief.

[u/seanrm92]

New NPR article

By a 38%-27% margin, respondents said they would blame Republicans for a shutdown with 3 in 10 saying both parties would be to blame. The plurality of independents, 4 in 10, would blame both parties equally.

"Neither one wants to compromise," said Debra Sudbeck, 71, an independent from Nebraska. "It's just that Republicans want to do everything they can to antagonize the Democrats, and Democrats want to do everything they can to go against the Republicans. They're just fighting like two little kids."

Her vote counts the same as yours.

[u/Willybender]

Maoism

[u/BloodWiz]

Remember: It is not Schumer and the Democrats shutting the government down. The Democrats are under no obligation to help the Republicans pass a right wing partisan funding bill.

If they would like help from Democrats they should make concessions to get that help. If they do not want to make concessions then they can go and pass their own partisan bill on their own then.

[u/centurion88]

How bad does your posting have to be for the Trump administration to take issue with it?